{"product_id":"before-humanity-posthumanism-and-ancestrality-9789004502444","title":"Before Humanity: Posthumanism and Ancestrality","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stefan Herbrechter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e takes up the question of the post- in the posthuman from the position of ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us back to our very beginnings. The before in \u003ci\u003eBefore Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e in this context takes on two meanings: 1) what happened before we apparently became human? - which translates into a critical reading of paleo-anthropology, as well as evolutionary narratives of hominization; 2) living through the end of a certain (humanist, anthropocentric) notion of humanity, what tasks lie before us? - which provokes a critical reading of the Anthropocene and current narratives of geologization.\u003cbr\u003e In other words, \u003ci\u003eBefore Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e investigates conceptualizations of humanity and asks whether we have ever been human and if not, what could, or maybe what should we have been?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48226533114007,"sku":"9789004502444","price":14877.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004502444.webp?v=1788771167","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/before-humanity-posthumanism-and-ancestrality-9789004502444","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}